Word: anglicans
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Spoonful of Oil. Therewith began the Anglican Communion service, which is the heart of coronation. Embedded in the familiar liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer, the mysteries of the anointing and crowning lost their strangeness for Britons, and the Abbey became, in a trice a nation's parish church. Archbishop and people intoned...
...move in this direction. Said he in his Sunday sermon: "The publicity attendant on the departure of a priest of this church for Rome has highlighted the question of authority in the Episcopal Church. The statement of this former clergyman . . . illustrates the words of the bishops of the Anglican Communion at the Lambeth Conference [in 1948]: 'A perplexed generation is in search of an authority to which to give its allegiance and easily submits to the appeal of authoritarian systems, whether religious or secular...
...disillusionment . . . was due mainly to the [Roman Catholic] emphasis on externals rather than on essentials . . . On the positive side, the most impelling reason for my entering the Anglican Communion is its balance, restraint, moderation and 'humanizing'-if I may use the word-of things divine...
...After My Death." Hopkins' background was solidly High Anglican, and by the time he was an undergraduate at Oxford, he was so caught up in religious fervor and asceticism as to note in his diary: "For Lent. No pudding on Sunday...
...Oxford Union into resolving (in 1933) that they would under no circumstances fight for king and country, later soared to great popular heights as the life and soul of the BBC's quiz panel, "Brains Trust." In his later years, he veered back to religion (the Anglican Church), confessed that "Christianity works better than any thing else I have heard...